This Technical Report provides details about scalable SAN in clustered Data ONTAP, updated for the 8.3.1 release. It covers path management best practices for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI protocols; MPIO, ALUA, DataMotion for LUNs (lun move and lun copy), and other SAN-related Data ONTAP features.

Windows Active Directory is used for the KDC and LDAP server in this document. There is also a mention of MIT KDC and RedHat Directory Services LDAP. SSSD is used as the LDAP client on the Linux systems. RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Solaris and SUSE/SLES are all covered for configuration steps, ...

This document discusses general considerations for all Oracle environments followed by specific recommendations based on the choice of virtualization and OS. Special topics such as the choice of filesystem layout and NFS lock breaking are included in the appendices.